Of all the senses bestowed to man, eye sight is probably the most vital given the visual nature of the world around us. Without our sight, even the simplest tasks are rendered difficult, if not impossible, down to the most basic act of coordinating clothing and dressing oneself, through cooking a hearty meal. Alas, the quality of eye sight varies greatly from person to person with genetics playing a determining role in this lottery of perception, as well as the frequency of activities such as perusing backlit screens for hours on end due to the professional context in which a person operates. For many, there comes a time when glasses or contact lenses are an inevitable reality and this can be a real inconvenience given the expensive price tag associated with professional eye care, lenses, frames and optician bills, not to mention the uphill battle associated with coming to terms with wearing eyesight aids for most daily activities.

Fortunately, there is a viable alternative in natural eye sight improvement. You really can improve your eyesight naturally through eye yoga and eye exercises. Most eye problems are caused by strain, onset by eye dependent activities such as reading, working on small, detailed items, and long haul drives on endless boredom inducing motorways and highways. The key to improving eye sight is alleviating the strain so that the optical muscle functions in a relaxed and fluid manner rather than in a stressed, tense flutter of focus and concentration. By increasing the movement of the eyes, one improves the fluidity and speed at which they can focus and adapt to an ever moving landscape, strengthening muscles and training the eye to behave in a relaxed yet efficient way. So if you have been wondering how to improve eyesight naturally, these eye exercises and eye yoga exercises may be for you.

There are tons of documentation detailing efficient eye exercises geared at improving eye sight from blinking exercises that keep the eye hydrated and oxygenized, through to movement exercises, by way of mental self coaching. There is even a great eye yoga video by Paul McCartney in which he demonstrates his personal series of eye exercises. The eye is a tool used by the brain to construct a visual representation of the world, however, this image is constructed in the mind and for this reason, eye sight is distinctly linked to one’s mental appreciation of their own vision. If you have negative thoughts gravitating around how awful your sight is, sit in front of screens for long periods of time and do little to facilitate the recovery of your eyes after effortful strain, you are headed straight for progressively deteriorating eye sight. Exercise your eyes, avoid stress and think positive is the key mantra to improve eyesight naturally. For more information about these exercises, consider ready the Eye Yoga Book.

]]>http://www.eyeyogabook.com/how-to-improve-eyesight-naturally.html/feed0Tired Of Wearing Glasses? Try Yoga For The Eyeshttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/tired-of-wearing-glasses-try-yoga-for-the-eyes.html
http://www.eyeyogabook.com/tired-of-wearing-glasses-try-yoga-for-the-eyes.html#commentsThu, 06 Sep 2012 02:30:19 +0000adminhttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/?p=64That’s right, Yoga for the eyes – this may seem an absurd statement to those unacquainted with the powers of Yoga, but rest assured that the benefits are palpable, if not unavoidable if strict adherence to drills and training is respected. The popularity of Yoga in today’s modern world is indisputable as exemplified by millions upon millions of devoted practitioners who participate in daily exercises as a means of maintaining their health as well as for Yoga’s well-being benefits. However, a further benefit of taking part in Yoga that has had little recognition relative to the popularity of straightforward Yoga is its benefits for the eyes.

Yoga for the eyes is a well established discipline that dates back hundreds of years based on repeated eye exercises that improve vision or at least maintain it for those suffering from the progressive debilitating onset of blindness and loss of vision associated with the aging process. The exercises are composed of massaging elements, stabilization and concentration drills as well as blink and gaze tasks.

Like classic Yoga positions which work towards improving the strength and general health levels of specific organs, eye Yoga is specifically geared towards improving the condition of eyes be it in terms of vision or physical integrity. The results are truly astounding; for those suffering from inconvenient eye twitches, tension due to emotional stress and other reactionary ailments, eye Yoga provides unequivocal relief.

Considering that over a third of the human population suffer from some form of eye ailment, most commonly sight issues such as short and long sightedness as well as more deep-set diseases such as glaucoma, the potential benefits of eye Yoga are powerful to contemplate.

There is a tendency for opticians to immediately prescribe glasses or contact lenses as the only solution to eye related disorders, however in many cases following eye Yoga’s simple exercise may be a far safer option with permanent results. Eye wear is a temporary solution that in many cases causes the eye to become dependent on a certain lens specification in order to function correctly, as such deteriorating its functions far more that had the patient simply not worn glasses.

Eye Yoga on the other hand provides a permanent solution by strengthening the eyes, releasing tension and improving the optical capabilities of the inner ocular muscles which improve eye sight. Repeated use of eye Yoga exercises over a certain period can produce some astonishing results and work wonders towards rehabilitating the eye to its former visual glory.

]]>http://www.eyeyogabook.com/tired-of-wearing-glasses-try-yoga-for-the-eyes.html/feed0Understanding Eye Disorders and Diseases and Their Treatmenthttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/eye-disorders-and-diseases-and-treatment.html
http://www.eyeyogabook.com/eye-disorders-and-diseases-and-treatment.html#commentsSat, 01 Sep 2012 02:38:21 +0000adminhttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/?p=69The strain imposed on eyes through a lifetime are hard to quantify and grasp in a coherent sense, nevertheless it is safe to say that it is sizeable, consequential and has a profound impact on the general well-being of the eyes. For many people these issues manifest themselves as fleeting eye sight – objects are difficult to put into focus, far off landscapes become blurry and spatial placement becomes convoluted. For others, these manifests present themselves as eye disorders such as twitching eye lids, pain when moving the eye and inflamed blood vessels. These problems seem to have become more prominent in this age of computer screens, televisions and mobile phones. The eye is tense and focused on backlight devices for large chunks of the day and subject to all manner of flashing lights and icons, it’s a wonder we all haven’t developed severe cases of epilepsy.

Fortunately, there is a new force in the rehabilitation of tired and drained eyes in form of eye Yoga. Yoga will inherently conjure up images of contorted postures that provide lasting benefits to specific body parts and benefits; however few people associate its healing powers with the eye. A pardonable mistake, however if you feel that your eye sight if flailing as of late or are subject to incessant aches it may be worth your time investigating.

Based around repeated exercises such as blinking, use of the hands to palm and massage the eyes, as well as strategic looking techniques, eye Yoga can produce some surprising results if adhered to with discipline and consistency. These exercises and techniques relax and strengthen eye muscles so that visual activity isn’t characterized by strain leaving the eye plenty of time and flexibility to better itself naturally.

In essence, eye Yoga acts in the same way as traditional Yoga postures by ameliorating the general conditions in which the eye goes about its daily tasks, alleviating any tension or unwanted stress – one of the main causes of common eye disorders and diseases.

Our bodies are formidable tools for everyday life and given the right environment and treatment can heal themselves particularly well on their own. As such, many people have now turned towards eye Yoga or eye exercise as an alternative to pricey eyewear which can have the opposite effect desired by worsening the state of the eye rather than improving your eyesight. So before jumping at the word of your optician and opting for glasses, think eye Yoga – you may be pleasantly surprised with the results.

]]>http://www.eyeyogabook.com/eye-disorders-and-diseases-and-treatment.html/feed0Paul McCartney Teaches Eye Yogahttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/paul-mccartney-teaches-eye-yoga.html
http://www.eyeyogabook.com/paul-mccartney-teaches-eye-yoga.html#commentsFri, 10 Aug 2012 23:46:45 +0000adminhttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/?p=55Eye Yoga is explained here by the amazing Paul McCartney. Paul explains in this eye yoga video that he has been practicing yoga for eyes for many years, and demonstrates his own personal series of Eye Yoga Exercises on this video. As a professional musician who must rely on his eyes for reading music, these exercises have proved valuable for Paul for many years.
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http://www.eyeyogabook.com/eye-yoga.html#commentsTue, 10 Aug 2010 20:51:25 +0000adminhttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/?p=1Eye YogaHow you see is how you think

Dr. Jean Houston, international consultant, renown visionary, and author of many books, including A Passion for the Possible and Jump Time, says:

“Eye Yoga is a visionary book about vision. It offers state-of-the-art practices to improve one’s seeing of both outer as well as inner worlds. The authors address both sight and insight in ways that add new possibilities to human experience. The techniques offered here are superb and enhance both physical and mental performance in unexpected and deeply gratifying ways. Read this book, do the exercises and see a new world.”

Simple eye excercises to improve your vision and eye-brain connection

Many of us are looking for ways to maintain and even improve our vision. Drawing from such diverse fields as brain neuroplasticity, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and natural vision improvement, Martha Rigney and Jane Battenberg make important connections between the eyes and brain that can reawaken deep brain capacities through simple eye exercises.

Inside, you will find easy-to-follow diagrams and photographs that help you perform the exercises with ease, whether alone or with a partner.

Eye Yoga is written in an easy, light style, offering a depth of experiences and references. Introducing advanced research, Martha and Jane reveal essential insights concerning the eye/brain and TV-watching, video games, the effects of colors, stroke recovery, visualization therapy, the irises’ ability to reflect our innate personality, and many other topics. Prepare to be entertained as your eyes are opened to new possibilities.

Dr. Jacob Liberman, author of Light, Medicine of the Future and Take Off Your Glasses and See, says: “Change your vision and your life will surely change. This book will tell you how.”

Reviews of Eye Yoga Book

There is a proliferation of books claiming that vision function can be trained. Many people, driven by the hope of preventing further deterioration of their eyes, seek out methods for natural vision improvement. Sadly, many humans seek a quick surgical fix or are too lazy to do regular exercises.

It is wonderful to read how the sister team, Martha Rigney and Jane Rigney Battenberg, have pulled the vast array of essentials together in order to give you the best chance to use the Eye Yoga concepts. Now you can take care of your eyes in your daily life and have a deep impact on the way you look through them and live in clearness.

For some readers, it may be a new idea that the eyes are controlled by the brain. Let this idea in. Let it sink very deeply. The authors have correctly made this critical connection. You may even go further to the next level of perception, where you discover that the mind directs the brain that in turn controls the eyes…

“Now you, as the reader, have the possibility to use cutting edge infor¬mation presented in Eye Yoga to master how to perceive correctly, and keep your eyes healthy. Do not worry if you forget to do the eye exercises. What is important is to remember who is the symphony conductor of your eyes. It is the deepest part of who you are, your Soul. When you do the eye exercises, remember it is really not about doing but more about your being with this deepest self as you appre¬ciate the experience of what the exercises bring you. Have fun and enjoy your Eye Yoga experience.”

Roberto Kaplan O.D., M.Ed., FCOVD

Former Professor of Optometry
Board Certified in Vision Therapy

Europe – March 28, 2009

Endorsements

“Eye Yoga is a visionary book about vision. It offers state-of-the-art practices to improve one’s seeing of both outer as well as inner worlds. The authors address both sight and insight in ways that add new possibilities to human experience. The techniques offered here are superb and enhance both physical and mental performance in unexpected and deeply gratifying ways. Read this book, do the exer¬cises and see a new world.”
— Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of numerous books including A Passion for the Possible, A Mythic Life, and Jump Time

“The eyes guide your every move. Thus, your vision is reflected in every step you take. Change your vision and your life will surely change. This book will show you how.”

— Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D., author of Light: Medicine of the Future, Take off Your Glasses and See, and Wisdom from an Empty Mind

“Eye Yoga challenges the current myths about vision and gives the reader a very clear road map on how to improve one’s eyesight and vision. The exercises are excellent tools to help a variety of vision problems. I highly recommend it!”
— Sam Berne, author of Creating Your Personal Vision

“Stated in simple language without hype, Eye Yoga is a uniquely gentle path to better vision. It is eager curiosity not forced discipline that brings success. In the process you’ll discover how your brain works your eyes to see your deeper self.”
— Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D., author of “Neuropsychology of Myopia”

“This is an excellent book. Just as our vision serves to connect our inner and outer worlds, this book serves to make many impor¬tant connections for the reader -connecting the eye with the brain, connecting thinking and seeing, and connecting eye exercises with vision. Many of the eye exercises are done with a partner, which serves to create another connection. I highly recommend this book.”
— Dr. Neal Apple, Ophthalmologist

“Not only would people with vision problems benefit from reading this book, but so would all psychotherapists.”
— Dr. Lee Hartley, Marriage and Family Therapist, Psychotherapist

“You see, you have two miraculous eyes. What they’ll learn from reading Eye Yoga will reveal the world in all its luminous and beauti¬ful mystery.”
— Lance D. Ware, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Somatic Intu¬itive Training™ Practitioner/Trainer, author, co-founder of ISIS Institute

]]>http://www.eyeyogabook.com/reviews.html/feed1About Jane Battenberg and Martha Rigneyhttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/aboutauthor.html
http://www.eyeyogabook.com/aboutauthor.html#commentsMon, 09 Aug 2010 20:17:54 +0000adminhttp://www.eyeyogabook.com/?p=19Jane Battenberg, M.A., D.C.H., a doctor of clinical hypnotherapy, is an author, a Time Dimension Therapist,
and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming master trainer. She has a therapy practice, which includes phone sessions. In addition, she gives workshops internationally and lives in Orange County, California.

Martha Rigney is a natural vision improvement educator with a background in vision therapy and alternative methods for health improvement. She leads educational and experiential workshops and speaking engagements, while maintaining a natural vision improvement practice in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Why We Wrote This Book – our “Her-Stories”:

Our family moved to Lima, Peru, when I was in the fourth grade, and my re-entry into the U.S. came in the seventh grade. Shifting cultures once again and trying to find my new place among my peers was a bit confusing, especially at age thirteen. I struggled to see where and how I fit into all this change. I admired my older sister’s sophisticated, grown-up look with her new glasses, and soon found myself nearsighted and with glasses as well. Wearing them was the accepted norm.

I found myself in the working world drawn to positions with a lot of focus on the details. First it was international banking operations. Next, I joined IBM, training to be a marketing representative. There was great pressure to absorb new material as well as compete with fellow classmates. After a few years, I took a break from the stressful and competitive marketing environment to do computer programming and manage a data recovery operation for a large insurance brokerage firm and later, as their technical computer-support person, servicing three locations. Again, I felt intense time and performance pressures. Finally, something inside me rebelled and I realized: “Life’s too short!” So I gave notice and left the pressure-cooker, downtown big-city job.

Over the next few months, my contact lenses began to bother me. I would often resort to wearing my older glasses. Then, even the glasses were a problem. So it was off to the optometrist who told me, “No wonder! Your prescription is way too strong for you.” I was astounded that my prescription dropped by about one-third and all I did was remove the stress from my life and not wear my lenses all the time!

Surprised and intrigued, I began my journey into what influences vision. Luckily, my optometrist was a behavioral optometrist who did vision therapy in his office along with color light sessions called
Syntonics. I began learning the miracle of what true, healthy vision entails. My journey has been a delightful weaving of vision therapy, color light therapies, natural vision improvement exercises,
stress reduction techniques, yoga, nutrition, and mind/thought/body/emotional explorations. Currently, I work with people individually and in groups to explore their visual world. We take a look
at their habits, stresses, lifestyle, beliefs, and inflexibilities. Working together, our goal is to expand their awareness to new ways of being and seeing.

Jane’s Story: “Changing my eyesight helped me change my lifestyle.”

When I turned forty, I married and moved from San Francisco to Orange County in southern California. My cosmopolitan, easy, life style in The City changed instantly to a two- hour commute through congested freeways in addition to twelve hour workdays. Coping with corporate budgets, performance targets and union negotiations was very stressful. Added to this was learning to be a wife and step-mom. I developed uncomfortable, itchy skin rashes which spread to my whole body. I was uncomfortable in my own skin. As the years passed, I kept increasing the strength of my prescription glasses. The many drugs and treat¬ments I tried did not stop the condition from worsening.

This journey profoundly changed me. Like Persephone returning from the Underworld, I returned with new intuitive abilities and sensitivities. Shedding my old life, I began to reinvent myself to learn the nuances and subtleties of emotional empathy as I developed skills in clinical hypnotherapy (my doctorate), Time Dimension Therapy and NLP, Lomilomi Hawaiian bodywork, Reiki and Huna. Today I see clients and teach, love my work and am grateful to have seen my way back to health and vitality.

Eye Yoga Workshops

Yoga for the Eyes or How You See is How You Think

This fun-filled workshop is packed with practical information on keeping your eyesight healthy as well as little known insights into the relationship between eyesight and thinking processes. Come and see for yourself

Learn simple exercises to keep your eye muscles stretched and strengthened, like taking your eyes to the gym or doing yoga.
Myth of presbyopia – learn ways to keep from wearing glasses or from needing a stronger prescription.
Explore how you see and how that relates to how you think.
Then, learn how to talk to your brain to change your sight.
Your eyes reveal secrets about you, such as whether you are a Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic person.
Quotes:

“It was such an amazing experience, quite emotional really, to have my brain turn on and off the sight in one of my eyes. I was glad to experience that it really works. All the exercises were so simple yet very effective and profound, especially their connec¬tion to right and left brain processing.”
— L. F., Costa Mesa, CA

One of a pair of twins came to our workshop. She was the good girl who always did what she was supposed to. She and her sister got glasses at the same time. Her sister refused to wear the glasses, broke them and kept losing them. She, however, wore her prescription faithfully, as she was told to do. When they became older, her sister was glasses-free while she wore thick lenses. Fortunately, she ‘saw the light’ and was ready to free herself from her crutches with what she learned at the work¬shop. In her life and personality-wise, she was ready to explore life rather than just do as she was told.

After doing the TDT process, I noticed that I could see a little clearer. But my glasses wouldn’t work – they made things fuzzier. Then I realized that my prescription was too strong, so I started using an older, weaker pair.
— C. King, Orange County, CA

A client with a detached retina realized that she had detached from life, as early as in the womb. When she said, “I was detached!” we both realized that it had become a metaphor for her eye condition.

Increase Your Brain Power with Eye-Brain-Body Exercises

Reactivate your brain and make new neural pathways. Learn eye, body and imaginal exercises to improve the neuroplasticity of your brain. The authors have successfully used these powerful-yet-simple exercises on people with such issues as strokes, pain, frozen vocal cord and tinnitus. Improvements were seen within an hour to four days, in their thinking, vision and physical symptoms. Good for people of all ages to keep their brains active.

“Jane has discovered an innovative path to health that gives the individual the power to restore health even after catastrophic losses of function. Essentially, it is a practical guide to boosting neuroplasticity and healing yourself.”
—Suzie Schuder, M.D., holistic and integrative psychiatrist, Newport Beach, CA

“It’s a bold challenge for someone to embrace unknown programs designed to do what others have not. Yet, it was a series of eye-tongue exercises that “woke-up” a recent seminar attendee’s brain to be able to once again see distances. Our brain functions from what we tell it to do. Jane’s programs provide new corridors for the brain to work for us.”
—Ron Cordek, Mission Viejo, CA